“When Turia was in intensive care four years ago, I bought a diamond ring”

In the four years since Turia Pitt was caught in a bushfire, she and partner Michael Hoskin have worked hard to rebuild her shattered life. Proudly announcing their engagement, they tell Bryce Corbett why now is the perfect time to get married.

IT WAS WHILE out on the ocean they both love, with a ring he had bought four years ago and as a manta ray swam lazily beneath them. If Turia Pitt’s marriage proposal could have been more romantic, it’s hard to know how. The inspiring burns survivor and her long-term beau, Michael Hoskin, have become engaged while holidaying on a boat in the Maldives. And so the country’s greatest love story continues. Certainly, if there’s been one thing more persistently inspiring than Turia Pitt’s remarkable tale of triumph over adversity, it’s been the love story that has underpinned it. Michael – the former copper from Ulladulla, the boy she knew at school and admired from afar, the man Turia credits with giving her the strength to rebuild her life after…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2015

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